, 1887-11-03

hittitas county has twenty peu-I
sioners, who draw from the govern
meEt annually S332S
The chorela scare in Sicily Is so
great that the doctors have to be put
IN irons to keep them from running
away.
General Neal Dow opens the pro.
hlbitory campaign with speech at
the Cooper Union. New York. t He Is
81 years of age and full Of energy
and strength.
Spreckles is to invest S4,OOO,G0G in
his plant for manufacturing beet
sugar in California. He will put up
several evaporating establishments
in different parts of the state,
WHEN Robert Garrett heard that
Gould had bought up the Baltimore
and Ohio telegraph line no was wild.
Looking OF jays family riding by,
he might have expressed his feelings
by exSdaiming:
IoUx CITY has attracted national
sntion by building a corn palace.
It's architectural effects We're more
elaborate than those of st. Paul's IOe
palace, and when the show was over
1t was shelled and shipped to market
The Hindoos are cooling off in
their worship of Juggernaut. The
ear of that god has usually been
drawn by thousands of pilgrims. but
this year coolies had to be hired to
pull it. Next thing they Will hitch a
mule to it and that will end old jug.
for good.
Sunhowers arc used in Wyoming
territory for fuel. The stalks when
dry are as hard as maplewood and
and make hot fire, and the seed
heads with the seeds in are said to
burn better than the best hard coal.
An acre of sunhOwers will furnish
fuel for one stove for one year
The Omaha Republican Of October
18th contains an article a column
long In regard to Northern Pacific
Railroad affairs, and particularly as
to Wizards influence in them 1t
shows conclusively that Henry Vii
lard has become the acknowledged
controlling spirit IN that company.
and that his power is fully as absO>
Lutte as before his retirement in 1888
~ hen was u young man." said
Gen. Ben Butler recently, Il was ex-
amlned for appointment as a depart
ment clerk and failed miserably, tho
tried to bribe the young woman
who distributed the list of questions
10 give me easy ones. l remember
one of the questions was: What
states and territories would You cross
in going from New York to the Pa
cif1c coast?' l didn't know, so the
answer I wrote was: None, l would
go round by Cape Horn
Thomas Mast is coming to this
coast. What Gilroy was to the reign
Of George the Third. what John
Leech was to the reign of Victoria,
Thomas Mast was to the great strHg,
gle which began in 1861 and ended
IN reconstruction,- our greatest
political earicatIrist and our most
effective if not our greatest political
sstirist. The volumes of HnTper's
Weekly from 1861 down to the second
election of Grant in 1872, which in
oludss the fall of Tammany ring
will some day be as invaluable a
record of the social and political pas
sions and humor of their day as are
the works of Aristophanes, Horace
Juvenal and Martial to our know
ledge of the social and political hu.
NOR Of the ancient mind.
The Democratic papers are hare
at work trying to prove that if New
York goes Republican this fall i
isn't any sign that it will go Repub
hcan next fall. 1t isn't an infallibIe.
but it is very encouraging sigI
for a State to go Republican the
year before the Presidential election
Whenever New York has gone
Democratic at Presidential election
il will be discovered on inspection
that she also went Democratic the yeal
before. She went Democratic in the
election of 1888, if we remember
rightly. by about 100000 majority
She was counted Democratic for Mr.
Cleveland in 1854 by LOO plurality
Ii Is very strongly suspected, how
ever, that the ballot boxes Of New
York city were stuffed to make thai
victory. If she goes Republican thi.
fall by about $4,000 plurality We are
willing to take the chances that Gro
yer's LOO plurality will go up the
hume in 1888.
The steamship line from Vancou
yer, the terminus of the Canadian
Pacific, across the Pacific Ocean has
been granted large Government
subsidy The British Government
dcvotes S3,5OO,OOO annually 10 sub
sides for ocean mail TRANSPORTATION
by Vesaels undar its flag; GERMANY
pays its steamship lines over 1000,
Ub0 year, and France does us much
Holland, Spain and other countrie,
all aid their vessels by cash paw
mcnts for carrying mails or as direct
subsidies, while the United States
pays its own vessels scarcely $5OOOC
for ocean mail service. 1t paws 3
littls over s30O,0G0 year for this
eioss OF s"rVice, but neerly the whole
amount goes 10 foreign vessels. OuI
harISatI III laws ara burdensome upon
tsie shipping Interests, and thus handi
eafped they have deem unable to com.
Gete with foreign shipping, which are
st only favored by their own laws
bus nre Also granted Government aid
besides. Our Government has pur
>ned the most lavish policy with ou1
railroads. and at tho same time the
mo-" niggardly ono towards ouI
ships and ship-builders. The result
is that mort OF our ocean freights are
are carried III foreign bottoms, and
American sesmen are being driveu
Of the high ssa-
Phs chamber OF commerce of As
toria and The board of trade of Port
Iand have very properly protested
against the abauuonment Of Fort
CAHhy, al the mouth of the Columbia
siVer. The station commands the
eatranes OF the Columbia, and is the